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From Tacoma Curiosities: Geoduck Derbies, The
Whistling Well of the North End, Alligators in Snake Lake and More: When
the Northern Pacific Railroad laid its final tracks within the fledgling hamlet
of Tacoma, it brought opportunity and wild characters by the car full.
Seemingly overnight, the Puget sound village transformed into a booming
metropolis and eccentric playground with its fair share of growing pains. On
one unlucky evening, residents awoke to the cries of a man who fell into the
sewers after a road collapsed. Tacoma’s first school avoided demolition for a
time thanks to a band of enterprising tramps who converted the place of
learning into the Hotel de Gink, complete with unique minstrel shows. . . .
these and many more stories [are part] of the quixotic and curious history of
the City of Destiny.
From: Murder: When One Isn’t Enough: When Mercedes
Mackaill has a month off work in which to house and dog sit at a waterfront
home, she soon finds that too much of her own company palls. Then the body of
an old woman is pulled from the water in front of where she is staying and
Mercedes discovers she’d talked to the woman just days before the drowning. An
unexpected meeting with Dorsey Finch, the victim’s tenant, leads to [their
investigating] the woman’s strange past—a story reaching back to 1940-s
Hollywood and a well-known house on Nob Hill in San Francisco.
From A Feather for a Fan: In the late 1870s,
twelve-year old Hildy Bacom and her family leave Pennsylvania and head west to
New Tacoma in Washington Territory, a community that is barely four years old
[and] with a population of approximately one hundred and fifty. New Tacoma is
very different from Pennsylvania, but gradually Hildy adjusts to her new life
and makes friends with some unusual people: Mrs. Money, who runs her store with
a parrot on her head; Miss Rose, a lady of questionable reputation; and
especially Nell Tanquist. With Nell or alone, Hildy has adventures—with a bear,
a skunk, and a lost Chinese baby, among others. Then Hildy’s life is
complicated by two unexpected events: her growing feelings for the
French-Indian boy Samuel, and her cousin, Elsie, who arrives unexpectedly with
a problem no one will talk about. The challenges of hew new life force Hildy to
draw upon inner resources she didn’t know she had.
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